The applicant mother sought sole custody, child support, and section 7 expenses for the parties' nine-year-old son, while the respondent father sought joint decision-making and increased parenting time.
The court found that the high level of conflict between the parents necessitated an order for sole custody to the mother, who had been the primary caregiver and had managed the child's significant academic and anxiety challenges.
The father's parenting time was expanded to include alternate weekends.
The court imputed income to the father, who had been voluntarily unemployed since 2010, and ordered him to pay retroactive and ongoing child support and section 7 expenses.
The court also imposed strict safeguards on the father's ability to travel with the child to France to prevent international abduction.
